THE STORIES BEHIND THE GAME
Good reads for your next queue.
Guides, big moments, and the people behind them.
World of Warcraft: Forever rebuilds every talent tree, drops realms, adds nine dungeons and a thousand quests, and keeps level 60. We went through every change against Classic, and we kept the collection we wrote before the reveal.
A forum thread asking Blizzard to cut Polymorph, Sap and Fear in PvP passed 1,000 posts, and an all-Warlock Forever Open final put Fear back at the center of it. The real durations at level 30, what Blizzard has and hasn't changed, what players are proposing, and the case for leaving it alone.
Warlockguy, the 20th seed and former League of Legends pro Nien, won The Forever Open by beating fellow Undead Warlock Neepzen 3–1 in the grand final. The standings for all 36 finalists, the nine $5,555 class prizes, the Demonology build both finalists used, the upsets, the weekend's disputes, and what 4,500 qualifier duels say about class balance at level 30.